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Harvard's best opportunity to score in the opening frame came when Tigers Todd Hewitt and Grant Hansen slunk to the penalty box together at 16:50 to serve two minutes each for slashing and hooking, respectively...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Icemen Swamp Princeton, 5-1 | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

...Herd is the word," bellowed all of the assembled Harvard cross country runners, both male and female, varsity and junior varsity. Meanwhile, the black and blue Tigers tucked their tails between their legs and slunk quietly homeward...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers Cruise to Victory in Big Three Meet | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...stop-criticizing them. But basically this potted history of what press releases cannot seem to resist calling "three turbulent decades" of the union's history, beginning in untutored idealism and ending in equally unconscious corruption, suffers from the same flaw as do the fictions that have slunk out from under Harold Robbins' overcoat in recent years: what might be called the substitution of analogy for insight. In other words, the writers who create them seem to think it is enough to show us characters who, they suggest with a wink (or more often a brutal slam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: J.U.N.K. | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...birth defects of his neighbors until the tutor who lived in the entry, a music grad student, made his way cautiously up the steps in bathrobe and-ascot. He may have even intended to say something until he saw the murderous intent in Bell's eyes. Then he slunk away back downstairs, and Bell continued his ravings, which he had stopped only for the time it took to stare the tutor down, for another 25 minutes. The tutor left for Europe the next week, Bell went back into read what Safire had to say that day, and the wholesale dumping...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Any last words, buddy? | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...rest of the country, and the rest of the country, in return, would make Popkin's clothes, take out his laundry, and grant him immunity from testifying. Popkin's interview was followed by the hockey news. While the rest of Boston became absorbed in the action, Popkin presumably slunk off to divine the truth...

Author: By R. MICHAEL Kaus, | Title: What's So Special About the Press? | 2/28/1973 | See Source »

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